Resource Library
The following documents offer a starting point for understanding and practicing cross-sector alignment.
Results

Brief
Intermediary Organizations Are Urgently Needed to Assist in Modernizing Public Health and Addressing the Drivers of Health in the United States
This issue brief describes the different roles intermediaries can play; provides examples of where they have been used in practice; and identifies the risks, benefits, and possible innovations of intermediaries as well as policy approaches that might facilitate their appropriate use.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
“More Than Just Giving Them a Piece of Paper”: Interviews with Primary Care on Social Needs Referrals to Community-Based Organizations
This publication characterizes referrals to community-based organizations by primary care practices, which are increasingly being used by healthcare organizations to invest in social care.
Complex Care
Health Care
Social Needs

Publication
Revising the Foundational Public Health Services in 2022
This publication provides a framework outlining the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and can be used to explain the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community; identify capacity and resource gaps; determine the cost for assuring foundational activities; and justify funding needs
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Addressing the Social Needs of Medicaid Enrollees Through Managed Care: Lessons and Promising Practices from the Field
This publication describes the perspectives of Medicaid managed care organizations representatives on the lessons learned and emerging promising practices from addressing social determinants of health among their Medicaid enrollees.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Medicaid
Public Health
Social Needs

Publication
Study Finds Room to Boost Maternal and Child Health Participation in Health Impact Assessments
This publication exmaines a study showing how health impact assessments provide an action-oriented framework for maternal and child healthcare professionals to become involved in cross-sector collaboration to improve health equity.
Complex Care
Health Care
Public Health
Social Services

Brief
Community Member Experiences with Collaboratives: Preliminary Findings
This brief presents findings from interviews and a focus group with 15 community members who have participated in, and in some cases been affected by, cross-sector collaboratives in their communities.
Alignment 101

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the University of California, Berkeley
This brief assesses how pre-existing work to align health care, public health, and social services within Contra Costa County, Calif., was used and adapted over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Brief
Rapid-Cycle Research: Findings from the Population Health Innovation Lab
This brief highlights measures for aligning that health-oriented multisector collaboratives can use to assess their
progress across the elements of the Framework for Aligning Sectors.
Alignment 101

Webinar
Closing the Gaps in Health and Social Services for Low-Income Pregnant Women
This webinar examines the Los Angeles Maternity Assessment Management Access and Service program, an innovative multi-sector initiative seeking to address social factors that contribute to adverse maternal and infant outcomes, including housing instability, food insecurity, untreated mental health conditions, domestic violence, and substance abuse.
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs

Webinar
Aligning Systems for Health Research and Practice Convening 2021
This two-day webinar series reviews Aligning Systems for Health's learnings on cross-sector alignment over the past three years and what their findings mean for the future of the field.
Alignment 101
Health Care
Public Health
Social Needs